Felling continues assault on Triton Central girls basketball record book

FAIRLAND -- Maryrose Felling will leave Triton Central with several single-season and career basketball records. However, the one that may mean the most to her is becoming the top scorer in the Felling family.

Eighteen games into her junior season, she has amassed 1,113 career points – enough to get her to fifth all-time for the Triton Central girls basketball program. She will surpass Kelsey Larkey (1,145) and move into fourth place possibly as soon as this week.

With one more season to go, Felling also will track down Jessica Scherer (1,282) and Maya Chandler (1,437) then set her sights on the top spot held by Samantha Dewey (1,702).

There will be another milestone accomplishment along the way – passing Triton Central boys basketball program’s career scoring leader, and her brother, Wyatt Felling (1,553).

“Whenever I reached 1,000 points, I said I was going to beat his record,” said Felling with a smile after a semifinal win in the Shelby County Tournament on Jan. 9.

Felling reached that mark on Dec. 19 in a victory at Speedway – her third consecutive game scoring at least 30 points, and two nights after setting the program record with 10 3-pointers made in a game. She broke Lizzie Graham’s record (9) set in 2022.

And now she is closing in on Audra Blackford’s single-season record of 62 made 3s. She has already passed Graham’s career record for made 3s (153).

“Yeah, it would be great (passing Wyatt),” she said. “Personal goals, that (TC scoring record) would be amazing but obviously that’s not the goal I’m looking at.”

Felling has postseason success on her mind and two more seasons to make it happen. The Tigers are currently 11-7 after starting the season 0-4. They have four games left on the regular-season schedule before facing a tough sectional field that includes Eastern Hancock (17-2) and Heritage Christian (7-12) – two teams that have defeated Triton Central this season.

“I want to win the sectional,” said Felling. “We have a really tough sectional. We haven’t beaten Eastern Hancock in my two years so I would really like to beat them and move on to Heritage Christian and beat them. They are both good teams.”

Triton Central will be the host site for Class 2A, Sectional 43 which also includes Irvington Prep (7-10), KIPP Indy Legacy (4-7), Indianapolis Scecina (8-8) and Christel House (0-8).

Felling’s junior season opened with a loss at Batesville (67-50) then followed by losses to Heritage Christian (77-63), Eastern Hancock (60-53) and Monrovia (65-63 in overtime).

Graduation left the Tigers with an inexperienced varsity roster without a true low-post threat. That thrust Felling into a new role.

“I knew I was probably going to be one of the oldest players starting so I knew I had to be a leader and talk a lot,” she said. “I knew I had the most experience and had to step up and take that leadership role.”

Triton Central head coach Bryan Graham finally settled on eschewing experience for quickness. He locked in on Felling and four sophomores, all smaller than his team’s leading scorer and found success – including the program’s third-consecutive Shelby County Tournament title on Jan. 13.

Through 18 games this season, Felling is averaging 23 ppg and a team-high 6.4 rebounds. Those kinds of numbers will help her attain her goal of playing at the next level.

“I hopefully want to make a decision (on my commitment) at the start of the school season my senior year,” she explained. “I still have another season of AAU to go through. It’s hard for smaller guards to get offers the year before their last year.

“I’ve got one offer and hopefully will get more. And hopefully start looking at more schools soon.”

Chance and Marilyn Felling will close a door on their Triton Central chapter of life upon Maryrose’s graduation. First there was Atticus followed by Samantha and then Wyatt. All found success playing basketball in Fairland.

Despite their time at TC being over, several of them are usually in attendance to watch their youngest sibling chase her dream.

“I want to play (Division I) because I want to play at the highest level which I know I can play at,” said Felling. “I think that’s where I would fit best at.

“I want to have fun in college and be somewhere close to my family.”

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